You never know. It will be hard for the US to ever be a top contender until it gets to be more popular in the US. Those teams for the most part having been playing together for years and always play agaisnt top talent throughout the year. Heres hoping MLS can turn into a greater farm league to help bolster US Soccer more.

WHITEY1 wrote:You never know. It will be hard for the US to ever be a top contender until it gets to be more popular in the US. Those teams for the most part having been playing together for years and always play agaisnt top talent throughout the year. Heres hoping MLS can turn into a greater farm league to help bolster US Soccer more.

the MLS will never be a good farm league for US soccer. If you're a good soccer player from the US, you go to europe as soon as you can.

One of the EASIEST groups USA could have hoped for. Everybody (but S. Africa) was tought in Basket A. But US got likely the weakest of African teams plus a terribly overachieving team that was projected to finish fourth in the European qualifying group behind the Czech Republic, Poland, and Slovakia, and ultimately made it to the WC thanks to a totally lucky goal scored in Moscow during the first play-off game against Russia.

WHITEY1 wrote:You never know. It will be hard for the US to ever be a top contender until it gets to be more popular in the US. Those teams for the most part having been playing together for years and always play agaisnt top talent throughout the year. Heres hoping MLS can turn into a greater farm league to help bolster US Soccer more.

the MLS will never be a good farm league for US soccer. If you're a good soccer player from the US, you go to europe as soon as you can.

I don't agree with that at all. The MLS is a good farm league to get guys to Europe. Clint Dempsey never would have gone from Furman to Fulham. Having a decent professional league in the US has paid monumental dividends, and we haven't seen the full impact of it yet.

I can't believe this thread doesn't have a picture of Charlize Theron.

We'll see how the US deals with increased expectations, as everyone will favor them to advance. IMO it's good that they get England out of the way first so they'll (hopefully) be in better form for Algeria and Slovenia.